The Farmers and Merchants Union Bank building is located on eastbound West James Street / Wisconsin Highway 16 / 60 at its intersection with northbound Dickason Boulevard, at 159 West James Street, Columbus, Wisconsin 53925.

Statement of Significance (as of designation - January 7, 1976):Built in 1919, this small, compact bank, for all its
elaborate and beautiful ornamentation, has the look of soundness and
solidity and imparts the feeling of permanance and safety befitting a
bank. Louis Sullivan designed and also supervised construction of this
structure, the last of the eight banks he designed throughout the
Midwest and the next to last of the modest commissions that were all he
could obtain in his later years.

The building is the last of eight "jewel box" banks designed by Louis Sullivan.

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